Bill Text: NY S01990 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S01990 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01990-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1990
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  directing
         municipalities  to  submit  a  report  to  the  local  social services
         district on the circumstances surrounding the summoning  of  emergency
         medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a
         thirty day period of time
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    2  section 122-a to read as follows:
    3    S  122-A.  REPORTS  OF FREQUENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE CALLS FOR AN
    4  INDIVIDUAL. 1. EVERY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE, WHICH RECEIVES  AND
    5  RESPONDS TO FOUR OR MORE CALLS OR DEMANDS FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY
    6  MEDICAL SERVICE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND
    7  ONE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH LAW, TO ANY INDIVIDUAL DURING ANY PERIOD OF
    8  THIRTY DAYS, SHALL REPORT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH SUCH CALL OR  DEMAND
    9  AND  RESPONSE  TO  THE  LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT AND OFFICE OF THE
   10  MEDICAID INSPECTOR GENERAL, IN SUCH FORM AS SHALL BE DETERMINED  BY  THE
   11  COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   12    2.  EVERY  REPORT  SUBMITTED BY A MUNICIPALITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
   13  ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION AS SHALL BE  REQUIRED
   14  BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, INCLUDING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM
   15  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICE  IS  BEING  SUMMONED APPEARS TO BE RECEIVING
   16  ADEQUATE CARE AND SUPPORT AT HIS OR HER PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND  WHETHER
   17  THE SUMMONING OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE APPEARS TO BE UNWARRANTED.
   18    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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